User talk:Theonemacduff

Althusser
Hi I read your comments on the talk of Louis Althusser and I added a bit of the Judt quote to the article. I wondered if you could find Thompson's critque of him online, or a quote or review, or if you have it, as the article mentions his polemic but doesn't explain what his problems with Althusser's work are. special, random, Merkinsmum  22:48, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Why sources should be cited
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File:Valdy performing in 1976.jpg
Hi, thanks for uploading File:Valdy performing in 1976.jpg. Unfortunately, according to our image use policy, we will only be able to use this image if it gets released under a fully free license. As it is your own work, would you be willing to release it in this way (i.e. allowing free re-use elsewhere)? If yes, you can indicate this by simply placing the tag "cc-by-sa-3.0" on the file page. If not, I'm afraid we'll have to delete the image again. Fut.Perf. ☼ 20:58, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:Valdy performing in 1976.jpg)
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Replaceable fair use File:Valdy performing in 1976.jpg
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File:CP-3 Dec 75a.jpg
Fun isn't it - you upload a new image and it don't change - join the club. Only it does, but for some reason the file image page don't show it for some time - even purging and refreshing fail to wake it up. Anyway, the image was on commons as well, so I've moved you colour corrected copy to the commons image, and deleted all the en-wiki ones. If you are lucky, by the time you read this it might have updated! - if not just click the image on the file page to see the real saved image.  Ron h jones  (Talk) 17:49, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

WW1 & The Cranes are flying?
Hi there,

in this Soviet film it is I believe the case that the young woman searches for her soldier in a convoy leaving for WWII, right? Now, I just saw a US WWI film fragment where the actress (could be Mary Pickford, don't know for sure) actually does find her man. Do you know whether the Cranes are Flying is playing with that earlier US film or not? It could also be that the leaving soldiers is a rather generic scene used in many war films. 83.83.1.229 (talk) 19:37, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, only just saw this. Departure of soldiers is certainly generic. In Cranes are Flying, I was referencing the ending of the film, soldiers returning. The young lady realizes that her boyfriend is not coming back with the others, that he has been killed. She transmutes her sorrow by giving away the flowers of welcome she had brought with her to other soldiers, more or less randomly. As to double bills, I've no idea what other films it has been paired with. Long ago, when I saw it, it was on a double bill with Tarkovsky's Andrey Rubilov (not sure of the spelling of that name), totally different film. Sorry I can't be more help. Theonemacduff (talk) 07:26, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

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